ANTANANARIVO: A complete of 46 applicants together with the incumbent president and his two predecessors are in search of to contest Madagascar's presidential polls on the end of the year, the Constitutional Court stated Tuesday.
The court docket will now assess the applicants' eligibility and make sure through Sunday which ones shall be allowed to stand within the first round of the elections.
The vote scheduled for November 7 comes after a virus of protests that compelled President Heri Rajaonarimampianina to simply accept the formation of a "consensus" government tasked with setting up a contemporary ballot.
If no candidate receives more than 50 percent within the first round, a second round of balloting shall be hung on December 19.
Rajaonarimampianina, elected in 2013, will search re-election as will his predecessors Andry Rajoelina, who was in energy from 2009-2014, and Marc Ravalomanana, who held place of business from 2002 to 2009.
Opposition grandees Rajoelina and Ravalomanana were both barred from working in 2013 underneath a deal designed to carry stability to the impoverished Indian Ocean island.
Madagascar is a former French colony with a inhabitants of 25 million that has been beset through political instability for many years.
A standoff erupted over proposed electoral reforms that brought about mass protests and led the Constitutional Court to order a caretaker government to organise the ballot.
Demonstrators took to the capital Antananarivo's central sq. in April over Rajaonarimampianina's efforts to switch electoral rules that combatants stated were supposed to favour his party.
The proposals were overturned through the courts.
But the protests morphed into a full-blown motion to oust Rajaonarimampianina. Clashes between activists and the protection forces claimed two lives and left more than a dozen injured.
The court docket will now assess the applicants' eligibility and make sure through Sunday which ones shall be allowed to stand within the first round of the elections.
The vote scheduled for November 7 comes after a virus of protests that compelled President Heri Rajaonarimampianina to simply accept the formation of a "consensus" government tasked with setting up a contemporary ballot.
If no candidate receives more than 50 percent within the first round, a second round of balloting shall be hung on December 19.
Rajaonarimampianina, elected in 2013, will search re-election as will his predecessors Andry Rajoelina, who was in energy from 2009-2014, and Marc Ravalomanana, who held place of business from 2002 to 2009.
Opposition grandees Rajoelina and Ravalomanana were both barred from working in 2013 underneath a deal designed to carry stability to the impoverished Indian Ocean island.
Madagascar is a former French colony with a inhabitants of 25 million that has been beset through political instability for many years.
A standoff erupted over proposed electoral reforms that brought about mass protests and led the Constitutional Court to order a caretaker government to organise the ballot.
Demonstrators took to the capital Antananarivo's central sq. in April over Rajaonarimampianina's efforts to switch electoral rules that combatants stated were supposed to favour his party.
The proposals were overturned through the courts.
But the protests morphed into a full-blown motion to oust Rajaonarimampianina. Clashes between activists and the protection forces claimed two lives and left more than a dozen injured.
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